Portland police arrested 20-year-old Reed College students, Roland Bracewell Shoemaker and Manuel Abreu, on Monday, seizing what an announcement described as "an estimated 2-3 pounds of marijuana, a small amount of MDMA and LSD, as well as packaging material and scales."
Shoemaker, pictured left, face the most serious allegations, arrested for what police call "Delivery of Marijuana within 1000...
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A lawsuit lifts the curtain on Sen. Brian Boquist’s military deals—and how Republicans may be benefiting.

Politics
State Sen. Brian Boquist (R-Dallas) may be the most adventurous lawmaker in Salem.
He’s
described his best-known business, International Charter Inc. of
Oregon, as a humanitarian organization,
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State Sen. Brian Boquist (R-Dallas) allegedly misappropriated "thousands of dollars" from a U.S. military contractor and funneled the money to Republican Party candidates and causes in Oregon, according to a federal lawsuit filed by Boquist's former business partners.The partners allege that Boquist forced them out of the company, called ICI Wyoming, in December, and that they subsequently learned...
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New allegations from a former vice cop about the top brass.

Cops and Courts
A former vice cop is making new allegations of
retaliation, lying and backbiting in the highest ranks of the Portland
Police Bureau—after he gave a series of interviews about the city’s
fail
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A new city of Portland report calls for additional regulations on the local taxi business, citing drivers' long hours and low pay.
The following table, drawn from the report (pdf) shows what local drivers make:
2011 City of Portland Fair Wage $9.61
Oregon Minimum Wage $8.50
Average Ho...
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Oregon State University geophysicist Paul Vincent recently published a research paper detailing a new way to measure underground nuclear weapons tests with satellite imagery.
Vincent's study, published in the journal Geophysical Research Letters, focus...
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The International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 48, which represents about 100 city of Portland workers, was one of four union locals that last month made a show of not endorsing any candidate for mayor.At the time, IBEW 48 business agent Joe Esmonde cited the Co...
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60 Minutes on Groupon

On Sunday night, 60 Minutes got around to Groupon. Check out the video here—and if you already know how the online daily deals business works, you can fast forward to 7:55 for the bit about Groupon "horror stories," a phenomeno...
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A Portland Police Bureau report prepared this week for the Multnomah County Local Public Safety Coordinating Council illustrates the migration of gun and gang crime over the past decade and a half.
The maps below, for some reason marked "do not disseminate," are reproduced from the report, which was More